Page 4 - Pre-school dance plans spring

Play the music and act out the following story about going on a picnic. If you run out of music repeat the song.
a) Give each child a scarf to represent a picnic basket and ask them to follow you in skipping to the Danceland forest. When you arrive at the forest, pick lots of yummy fruits and put them in your Picnic basket.
b) You hear a bird chirping and follow it around the room (use your scarf to be the bird).
c) Find a nice place in the forest to sit down and have a picnic. Your scarf becomes the picnic blanket and you lay it out flat. You eat all the yummy fruit that you have picked.
d) Your scarf becomes a ball and you throw it in the air and catch it. You can also try encouraging the children to throw their balls to each other.
e) You are very tired and so have a big stretch and yawn and lay down to rest in the sunshine using your scarf as a pillow.
f) You slowly wake up and decide to play some music on your guitar (scarf). *Running time approx. 5 mins.
9. Warm-down and give out magic sparkles: ‘Warm-Down Rhyme’ written by Lucy Milan Davis & Sarah Moss
Click activity name to open YouTube video link.
The children are seated. Say the rhyme using the actions from the video.
We’ve had lots of fun in Danceland, (big stretch up with both hands in opposing directions)
But it’s time to say farewell, (wave goodbye with right hand and then left hand) So let’s take out our magic wands, “ping”, (mime taking out wand and casting spell)
And say our magic spell. (put imaginary wand back in lap)
I wiggle my fingers, I wiggle my toes, (actions as indicated)
I wiggle my shoulders, I wiggle my nose. (actions as indicated)
Say abracadabra, 1, 2, 3 (wave magic wand with right hand then count to three with left hand)
And we’re back in the real world (whisper) still as can be. (hands back in laps, sitting up straight and very still)
Give out magic sparkles.
* Running time approx. 3 mins.
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